Checks and Balance: Lacking class

The Economist Podcasts

• Episode: Checks and Balance: Lacking class
• Website: The Economist Podcasts
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• Duration: 00:39:53
• Published: 2021-02-12 18:22

Nearly half America’s children are yet to return to the classroom a year after the pandemic began. President Biden says it’s a national emergency, but he has already diluted a pledge to reopen the majority of schools in his first 100 days. Why is getting back to school so hard?

We hear from The Economist’s US policy correspondent Tamara Gilkes Borr and Adam Roberts, our Midwest correspondent.

John Prideaux, our US editor, hosts with New York bureau chief Charlotte Howard, and Jon Fasman, US digital editor.

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